NS8, a Las Vegas-based cybersecurity startup focusing on online fraud detection and prevention for small-and-medium-sized businesses, today announced it has closed $123 million in venture funding to accelerate product development and expand its global reach with an increased focus on growing its […]
Early this year, we wrote about NextFlex, after the consortium announced $12M in funding to promote the adoption of Flexible Hybrid Electronics and development in the US advanced manufacturing industry. NextFlex is a consortium of companies, academic institutions, non-profits and state, local and […]
A little over a year ago, we wrote a story about how social media app TikTok is taking teens by storm and making Snap and Facebook nervous. TikTok was developed and owned by China-based company ByteDance. Originally released in 2014, the […]
Online casinos are hardly a new development in the world of digital entertainment, having dated back at least as far as 1996. As one of the oldest forms of online entertainment, outsiders might expect some degree of stagnation, but this […]
M1 Finance, a Chicago, IL-based fintech startup reinventing personal finance, today announced it has $33 million Series B funding round to accelerate growth. The round was led by Left Lane Capital, a New York-based growth equity firm focused on high-growth consumer internet and […]
We wrote about Policygenius back in January after the Brooklyn, New York-based insurtech startup closed $100 million in Series D funding to grow its online insurance marketplace. Since then, the company has been busy working behind the scene on a […]
Over the past two weeks, health experts have softened their stance on social distancing after thousands of protesters flood American cities to protest the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. Over 1,000 health […]
Yesterday, we told you about World Health Organization (WHO) after the organization said coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of coronavirus. The comments came as a surprise to many experts after preliminary evidence indicated that coronavirus could spread even if […]
BellTroX is a New Delhi-based cybersecurity startup and provider of solutions for government and corporate intelligence arrays. Its services include Cyber information Collection, Translations, Analysis Assessment, Communications Strategies and Negotiations, all of which are supported by complex technology systems. Unknown […]
Geothermal energy is thermal energy stored within the Earth and is available everywhere, but it has been hampered for use as a significant energy source by limitations in drilling technology, except in select locations on the planet where it is […]
C2i Genomics (“C2i”), a New York City-based biotech startup that offers post-surgery monitoring of cancer recurrence and progression by analyzing subtle changes in the pattern of the tumor’s DNA, today announced it has raised $12 million in its Series A […]
NYMBUS, a Miami, Florida-based fintech startup and a provider of customer-centric platform that unifies all the required banking functions into one system, today announced it has closed $12 million in a new funding to support rapid market penetration for its SmartEcosystem. The round […]
In the last two years, we’ve written several stories about Facebook’s mission to make broadband internet available to rural communities in third world countries. In February 2019, Facebook partnered with Telefonica and other companies, to extend rural connectivity and bring internet […]
In the earliest outbreaks of coronavirus, preliminary evidence indicated that coronavirus could spread even if people didn’t have symptoms. Now, the World Health Organization (WHO) is saying that transmission of the coronavirus by asymptomatic people (who aren’t showing symptoms) is “very rare.” The […]
Over the weekend, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared an email exchange with a customer who used inflammatory rhetoric to criticize the company’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Bezos called the customer’s email “sickening” in an Instagram post late Sunday, […]
Back in April, we told you about India’s Reliance Jio after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in the Indian oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries to enable people connect with small businesses. Now, the company has raised new round of funding. Last Sunday, Reliance Jio said that the Abu […]
The University of Connecticut (UConn), a college known for its great basketball team and one of the top 25 public research universities in the nation, is a research leader in the fields of advanced materials, additive manufacturing, biomedical devices, cybersecurity, […]
Celebrities and conspiracy theorists are now spreading misinformation about coronavirus and 5G networks. This time, however, they erroneously claim that 5G networking equipment weakens the immune system, or spreads coronavirus. The damage is so bad that some paranoid citizens are burning […]
Quini, a Vancouver, Canada-based tech startup and a provider of sensory real-time data, analytics and technology solutions for the wine industry, today announced that it has closed an undisclosed amount of funding to advance its artificial intelligence development program and expand the […]
Just after we thought the question about the origin of coronavirus has been settled, a new study from Norwegian virologist Birger Sørensen is now reigniting the debate about the possible origin of the deadly coronavirus. In a new peer-reviewed paper […]